Probably more. Does copy and paste of copyrighted material deserve a merit ? How much is required for it to be plagiarism ?
I'm not making accusations - I'm asking a genuine question.
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He is clearly citing the source so plagiarism is overruled, and for his efforts bringing up something to the community deserve merit (not everybody reading news)
So plagiarism would be the wrong word. Copyright infringement ? I agree it is newsworthy and clicking links is a pain.
Yes is working great but we (or better, you DT members) need to be more strict to punish abusers.
I remember this:
Merit sales, transfers to aliases, back-and-forth trading, etc. are not much of an issue. All illegitimate merit will decay, and will account for a tiny and very expensive fraction of the total merit economy. It's basically a rounding error; fight it where convenient, but waste no sleep over it.
I've been on DT2 for 2 months now, and only tag red on accounts that I believe deserve it without a doubt. So far I haven't tagged merit abusers, and I'm not planning on changing that. I do like how the
5 merit abusers received red trust from 5 different DT-members. That seems better than all of it coming from the same person.
I agree that the system overall works. Anyone rising rapidly would require some of the merits from DT2 members and smerit sources to level up quickly. There are not enough merits floating around to do it without obvious systematic abuse.
There is a risk that too much tagging for spam or merit will make the real $ scammers look more legitimate.